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President Nominates Theodore Sedgwick as Ambassador to Slovakia


Theodore Sedgwick is a business executive with experience in launching and operating publishing and timber enterprises. He is the founder of Pasha Publications, a specialty publisher focused on energy, defense, and environment markets. He served as the company?s chief executive for twenty years. More recently, he launched Io Energy, an online energy information company covering the natural gas, coal, and electricity industries. He has also served as president of Red Hills Lumber Company, a producer of pine flooring.

Mr. Sedgwick graduated with honors from Harvard College, where he majored in Ottoman History. He has been an active volunteer for a number of cultural institutions, and has served on the boards of the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Shakespeare Theater Company of Washington, DC, and the Gennadius Library in Athens, Greece. He has also served on the boards of a number of land preservation organizations, including the Civil War Preservation Trust, which he chaired, the Wetlands America Trust, and the Land Trust Alliance where he is a national council member. He is also a member of a various business organizations, including the Chief Executives Organization, an international business organization for global leaders. He is married to Kate Watt Sedgwick, a public health specialist with a Masters degree in Public Health from Harvard University. They have two daughters and two grandchildren.